- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:15:26 +0200
- To: Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Also sprach Chris Wilson: > >[1] http://news.com.com/Microsofts+standards+choice/2010-1013_3-6161285.html > > Håkon, was there some actual proof in there, or just invective? > Were you on the purported phone call? Were you actually claiming > that Jean Paoli had little to do with XML's development? Can you > ever come to the table with Microsoft without claiming some kind of > conspiracy or evildoing on our part? Please? I've been working productivly with MS staff inside W3C WGs for 10 years, and I've always had a good personal relationship with your people -- yourself included. I hope this will continue in the future. Still, I've seen many casualties of MS' behavior in the area of web standards. I think that part of history is worth remembering as well. Everything I've stated is true. (As for analyzing MS contributions to XML: it was not my intention to start a debate on this -- I simply wanted to point out that vendors has put unjust pressure in private on W3C in the past. For people interested in the early history of XML, the SGML WG's archives [1] are valuable. But I suggest we take the discussion some other time.) [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-sgml-wg -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcomeB
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